Свежие новости и отзывы о Инвестиции

Amid ongoing struggles at Uber, one of its stronger regional rivals in transportation on demand has raised a significant round of funding, picking up a significant strategic investor in the process. Careem, a transportation startup currently in 80 cities across the Middle East, has raised another $150 million — closing out a $500 million Series D round that it confirmed in December when… Read More... →

Element AI raises $102 Millon, Another board member resigns from Uber and Chan Zukerberg Initiative invests $5 million into Landed to help teachers afford housing in Palo Alto. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

French startup Shadow, also known as Blade, just raised a Series A round of $57.1 million (€51 million). Shadow thinks your next computer is going to be in a data center. Your existing phones, laptops and Shadow’s own device (pictured above) act as a thin client, a window into your virtual machine running on a beefy server in a data center near you. Shadow had already raised $14.6… Read More... →

Managing inventory is one of the most challenging parts of running a retail business. It’s not easy to predict exactly how popular each item will be. That’s why retailers often offload their unsold clothing and products to other businesses. Some of these designs find their way into”off-price” stores like T.J. Maxx or Ross, known for their perpetually low prices. Now… Read More... →

The race for artificial intelligence technology is on, and while tech giants like Google and Facebook snap up top talent to build out their own AI-powered products, a new startup has just raised a huge round of funding to help the rest of us. Element AI — a Montreal-based platform and incubator that wants to be the go-to place for any and all companies (big or small) that are building… Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Altair VC Игоря Рябенького вложился в американский онлайн-супермаркет Movebutter . Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Известно, что раунд инвестиций состоялся в марте 2017 года. В сделке также приняли участие такие инвесторы, как Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Мэтью Белами (Matthew Bellamy – участник группы Muse), Kima Ventures, The San Francisco 49ers, First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund, The House Fund, Beluga Capital и др. Как рассказал Firrma Игорь Рябенький, Altair VC привлекла молод... →

22 из них получат от фонда инвестиции по 2,1 миллиона рублей в обмен на 7% компании.... →

Фонд развития интернет-инициатив (ФРИИ) запустил 12-й Акселератор. 32 компании из разных регионов России начали работу на площадке 8 июня. В 22 стартапа нового набора ФРИИ инвестирует по 2,1 млн рублей. Каждая компания оплатит программу акселерации стоимостью 900 тысяч рублей. В обмен на инвестиции ФРИИ получит долю в бизнесе финансируемых компаний в размере 7%. В еще две компании ФРИИ инвестирует по 900 тысяч рублей, команды направят их на оплату программы акселерации, фонд получает долю в бизнесе компаний... →

Банковская процессинговая система «Рукард» инвестировала $2 млн в сервис для развития внимания, памяти и мышления с помощью игровых механик «Викиум». Об этом пишет «Коммерсант». Структурировал сделку созданный с участием «Рукарда» венчурный фонд IP Fund. «Рукард» получил 35,15% ООО «Викиум», а также 40% в ООО «ЦРТКС «Викиум». Привлеченные инвестиции будут направлены на масштабирование бизнеса и расширение географии присутствия: в приоритете выход в испано- и португалоговорящий сегмент рынка, улучшение и выв... →

Chicago-based Snapsheet has raised $12 million to streamline the process after car accidents. The company has built a mobile application that surveys the vehicle damage and serves as a virtual appraiser. The latest round of funding is led by Tola Capital and comes just months after a $20 million Series C. “Snapsheet’s virtual claims platform streamlines and simplifies the… Read More... →

Submittable, a startup used by more than 9,000 companies to manage submissions, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Missoula, Montana-based Submittable was founded in 2010 with an initial focus on literary magazines that wanted help keeping track of manuscript submissions. As co-founder and CEO Michael FitzGerald put it, “We started with the poorest customers you could possibly… Read More... →

Something appears to have gone wrong. In our race to create newsfeeds full of angst and bile about Brexit and Trump, or photos full of pouting-teens against which ads can be sold, we’ve forgotten something. Namely, the power of the written world. And as Orwell himself wrote when illustrating “newspeak”, he who controls language controls the world: “Don’t you see… Read More... →

If you heard venture investors were pouring tens of millions into storage, you might think it was cloud storage or flash storage. But that’s not the kind of storage we’re talking about with Clutter. The Los Angeles-based startup, which helps customers store their physical belongings like clothing and furniture, has closed a $64 million funding round from big name investors. The… Read More... →

When I gingerly held the little spring-loaded plastic device which would shortly be hurtling an extremely sharp needle towards my finger at a rate of knots, I wondered momentarily about Theranos. Here was a company led by a turtle-necked founder who’d promised angels would dance upon a pin, thus writing your future. Or, perhaps more accurately, the world upon a small spec of blood on a pin. Read More... →

Партнерский материал В мае компания FunCorp, которая занимается созданием развлекательных приложений, объявила о том, что открывает первый в стране акселератор для развлекательных стартапов – FunCubator. О том, зачем это компании, а также какие проекты в ней хотят видеть, объясняет в своей первой авторской колонке руководитель акселератора Виктор Захарченко.  Самый популярный вопрос, который нам задают: «Зачем вам акселератор?» Ответ – это нужно и рынку, и нам самим. Успех FunCorp был во многом предопределе... →

В мае компания FunCorp, которая занимается созданием развлекательных приложений, объявила о том, что открывает первый в стране акселератор для развлекательных стартапов – FunCubator. О том, зачем это компании, а также какие проекты в ней хотят видеть, объясняет в своей первой авторской колонке руководитель акселератора Виктор Захарченко.  Самый популярный вопрос, который нам задают: «Зачем вам акселератор?». Ответ – это нужно и рынку, и нам самим. Успех FunCorp был во многом предопределен открытостью к изме... →

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Remember the good old days when cartoon robot toys were all the rage? Maybe you were a Transformers kid or maybe you were into Microbots. And, if you were very lucky, you got to experience to joy of the mini transforming Sewbots. If you were lucky you got the Sewbots Command Center and if you were really, really lucky you can now get the SoftWear Automation Sewbot, a fully functional sewing… Read More... →

Drone Racing League has closed on $20M in Series B funding, led by U.K telecommunications company Sky, Liberty Media Corporation (which owns the Formula 1 racing brand) and Lux Capital. This new funding means that the league has now raised over $32M in three rounds. Allienz (who is also the title sponsor of DRL) and World Wrestling Entertainment also joined the round as new investors in… Read More... →

HelloSign, the eSignature platform, is announcing a $16 million financing round led by Foundry Group and Zach Coelius. Greylock Partners, U.S. Venture Partners and Tien Zhuo also participated. Although the San Francisco-based company has been around since 2010, they are calling it a Series B, since they’ve raised little outside capital. The business is cash flow positive and it’s… Read More... →